The Investigative Judgment and Shut Door, and Their Ramifications

#56: "Ellen G. White immediately put God's endorsement on this new
explanation for the date October
22nd, 1844. 'The Lord shew me in vision more than one year ago that Brother Crosier had
the true light of
the cleansing of the sanctuary.' A Word to the Little Flock p. 12."—Dale
Ratzlaff.

#56: She immediately put God's endorsement on their
explanation. Actually, she put God's endorsement on Edson and
Crosier's explanation before she heard that they had found an explanation, and even before
they had had time to publish it.

Edson and Crosier's findings were printed in the February 7, 1846, issue of the
Day-Star, published in Cincinnati. Their findings may have
also appeared in an issue of the Canandaigua, New York, Day Dawn in
March or April of 1845, though opinions vary on this (Lest We
Forget, 3rd qtr., 1994, p. 5; "Day-Dawn" and "Crosier, Owen
Russell Loomis," Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia).

However, in mid-February of 1845, Mrs. White had a vision at Exeter, Maine, during
her first journey east, the same vision referred to under
#50. This vision endorsed Edson and Crosier's ideas:

While in Exeter, Maine . . . . It was then I had a view of Jesus
rising from His mediatorial throne and going to the Holiest as Bridegroom to
receive His kingdom. They were all deeply interested in the view. They all said it was
entirely new to them. . . . Previous to this I had no light on
the coming of the Bridegroom, but had expected Him to [come to] this earth to deliver His
people on the tenth day of the seventh month. I did not
hear a lecture or a word in any way relating to the Bridegroom's going to the
Holiest.—Manuscript Releases, vol. 5, pp. 97, 98.

There was no way she could have heard of Edson and Crosier's study at the time she
had this vision.

Typically, someone else found a doctrine in the Bible, and then her visions endorsed
it. In this case her visions endorsed the doctrine before
she heard of it.